NEW DELHI: Govt is planning integration of three key media-nodal bodies – Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI), Central Bureau of Communication (CBC, formerly DAVP), and Press Information Bureau (PIB) – to create a unified and more responsive system for communication and public outreach. The move, as per senior officials, aims to streamline information flow,…
The NueGo bus involved in accident HYDERABAD: Just a day after a private bus fire charred to death several passengers in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool, another mishap involving a private bus was reported on the outskirts of Hyderabad Saturday afternoon. A NueGo electric bus going to Guntur in Andhra Pradesh from Telangana’s Miyapur, overturned near Pedda…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC has held that the death or permanent disability of a minor in a motor accident cannot be equated with that of a “non-earning individual” while computing compensation, reports Ajay Sura. “The reason is obvious: a child, by virtue of tender age, is not engaged in gainful employment, and any rigid…
SRINAGAR: Political tempers are running high in Kashmir Valley after BJP won one of the four Rajya Sabha seats in J&K with support from four legislators outside the party on Friday. The National Conference (NC) leadership exonerated its legislators and allies of cross-voting charges, although party president Farooq Abdullah created a flutter by revealing that…
NEW DELHI: In a significant development, police on Saturday arrested sub-inspector Gopal Badane, the second accused in the suicide case of a woman doctor from Maharashtra’s Satara district, according to a PTI report. Badane’s arrest came just hours after the arrest of Prashant Bankar, a software engineer and the son of the doctor’s landlord, who…
At The Times of India Group’s Navbharat Times “Leadership Excellence Summit,” leading industrialists and entrepreneurs of the country shared their experiences. Maharashtra’s Additional Chief Secretary for Urban Development, Asim Gupta, while emphasizing the importance of leadership, said that today’s India is no longer afraid to dream big. This has been made possible because the nation…
VISAKHAPATNAM: Many parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh (CAP) and Rayalaseema regions in Andhra Pradesh will have to brace for heavy to extremely heavy rainfall next week (from October 27) as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that a cyclone likely to form in the Bay of Bengal is approaching its coast. The cyclonic storm…
NEW DELHI: More than 40 passengers escaped unhurt after a bus caught fire on the Ranchi-Lohardaga highway on Saturday evening, news agency PTI reported. The incident occurred when the vehicle, travelling from Ranchi to Chatra, suddenly went up in flames near Mandar Bazar.“There were nearly 45 passengers on the bus, which suddenly caught fire near…
NEW DELHI: RJD leader and Mahagathbandhan’s chief ministerial candidate Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday launched a strong attack on the Bihar government, accusing chief minister Nitish Kumar of neglecting the state’s development.Calling Bihar the poorest state in India, Yadav said Nitish Kumar had failed to attract industries and investments. He vowed that if elected chief minister,…
NEW DELHI: A seven-year-old thalassemia patient in West Singhbhum, Jharkhand, was tested HIV-positive, prompting an investigation into allegations that the local blood bank transfused contaminated blood.The matter came to light on Friday after the child’s family accused the blood bank of providing infected blood. Since the child began treatment, around 25 units of blood had…
